and so i think the big trend here is that donald trump owns the republican party lock, stock, and barrel. there is no independent republican party. there is no powerful conservative movement in america. there is only trump and trumpism. >> okay. so, that gets us to your book... >> yes. >> ..."the corrosion of conservatism." >> yes. >> and i think, for the benefit of our viewers, i think it's important to ground you and locate you in the conservative movement, because you were introduced to conservatism through national review and your father introducing you to that magazine when you were in your teens. >> right. >> i didn't know that you were the son of russian jewish immigrants to this country. >> and, in fact, i was born in russia, in 1969. we came here in 1976, when i was 6 years old. and i grew up in l.a., in southern california, in reagan country back then. and, naturally, being an émigré from a communist country, i was drawn to the most anti-communist political movement in america, which was the republican party. and i really thrilled to ronald reagan and his moral clarity when he

they certainly aren't winning the wall that donald trump promised them. trump voters know they didn't win the money to build the wall for mexico. he promised mexico would pay for the wall, he led the chants mexico would pay for it wall, and they haven't paid a penny. and donald trump has not gotten a penny out of a republican controlled congress to build one foot of the new trump wall, not one foot of trump wall, and that doesn't feel like winning for trump voters. and so there's not a word at trump rallies now about mexico paying for the wall. those people in the red hats are not tired of winning. and so donald trump has to keep them scared. and if that means we see the words and ideas of donald trump on another mass murderer's final social media posting before going in for the kill, then that's the price donald trump seems willing to pay for keeping his voters scared. have we now seen america's last mass murderer to use donald trump's language and ideas in his social media postings as he kill as the mass murderer in pittsburgh did? we don't know. but we

but the name a lot of people focus on is donald trump, jr. accused by democratic senators of offering misleading if not contradictory testimony, and that's based on the record we know about. he did talk about this trump tower moskow deal in his senate testimony, and he appears to have been truthful if a little off on the dates. but now we're learning from the cohen documents that cohen briefed family members, unnamed family members but presumably donald trump, jr. so it remains to be seen if there's anything inconsistent with his testimony. but he reported today that the senate intelligence committee and senate judiciary committee are now pouring over these transcripts and cross-checking to see whether they can detect any potential lies. and they've made a number of criminal referrals to mueller that they will not talk about, some of which can presume may be perjury, lawrence. >> is there something out there people get the feeling that in congressional testimony i can take a bigger lead off the base than i can when i'm being cross examined by

and donald trump will know. and are the democrats going to be in control of the impeachment process if robert mueller delivers a report to congress showing that president trump has committed impeachable crimes? we will know the answer to that at this time next week. if the democrats win the house of representatives on tuesday night, donald trump is going to be more terrified than he has ever been in his life, and robert muller eller is going to more empowered knowing that a democratic house of representatives will not ignore his report the way a republican house of representatives would try to and probably succeed in ignoring it. and today we learned more about the roadmap of robert mueller's investigation that we will discuss later in this hour, including the possibility that the president of the united states is already under subpoena by the special prosecutor and is secretly fighting that subpoena in court. we will get to that later. there is something else at stake in next week's election for donald trump and

how can you lay that on donald trump? the rhetoric on the left is just as bad. the opposition party media will not report it. please spare me. >> i made a film called trump at war, the first 5 minutes of the prologue. what i took his on women, don lemon, i respect don lemon was i took don lemon's greatest hits when he looks at the camera and says it is not donald trump's race but your race. the backers of donald trump. covered with the footage of anti-fa beating people up who wear red ball, this is shot by cable networks. it is always trump's supporters, that were the cause of all this. they never talk about the intimidation. look what happened to ted cruz, mitch mcconnell, do not sit here and tell me that the left in the democratic party and instigators like hillary clinton and holder, when they go low, kick them. that is never mentioned. the violence, the violence that is brought up by the democratic left is far worse. >> a few minutes ago steve bannon said that distinguished signals from the noise, the things he does from the things he says. when a president s

donald trump the republican's structural problem. and as of tonight the president does not stand a chance of being re-elected. only 37% of voters want to see president trump re-elected. 58% of voters want to see president trump defeated in 2020. for the trump campaign to have a chance something dramatic is going to have to change about donald trump himself. and sole far changing donald trump has always been impossible. there is an extraordinary number within that monmouth university poll. 16% of republicans do not want donald trump to be reelected. donald trump cannot give up 16% of republicans and have any chance at re-election. 59% of independents say they do not want donald trump to be elected. 59% of independents. so for donald trump to be re-elected he has to somehow change the minds of every republican who does not want donald trump to be re-elected and at the same time he has to change the minds of tens of millions of independents all over the country who do not want donald trump to be reelected. and we have never seen donald t

if donald trump jr.ared kushner took this meeting innocently, in ignorantly and sort of stepped into it -- it's possible. but mr. manafort? he would have clearly known what the russians were up to. >> two nights before the meeting on june 7th, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. >> we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> we just don't know if the speech that donald trump made is a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. >> for all the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time he hardly gave it a second thought. >> i didn't care about the meeting. it sounds bad, but it's true. i didn't care. i wanted my client to be happy. that's always my ultimate goal. >> coming up -- >> so tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? so a tree falls on your

some of them are ignoring donald trump and fighting with donald trump and fighting with donald trump,for the future territory of the republican party as well. if they do well, that shores up the donald trump approach and if they struggle, it may encourage some of the more moderate, sensible, decent republicans to come out against him. what you say about the economy, it is the economy, stupid, that rules the roost essentially. there is no certainty who is going to inherit from angela merkel and was glad to bea from angela merkel and was glad to be a future candidate for leadership about the same time, the economy is doing tremendously. the germans are to be missing a boom time at the moment. if donald trump gets away with a successful economy, it will be immaterial for who will be fighting for leadership, the economic issue will rule the day.“ the democrats to take control of the house on tuesday, what will be the effect, how will they use that power, do you think? the only thing they will be able to do is use subpoena power and the power that shares of committees how to conduct invest

one makes that kind of repudiation of what donald trump has been talking about particularly when you look at the places like iowa like wisconsin like michigan like pennsylvania like virginia places that donald trump needs to win to win the twenty twenty alexion so the democrats will be very pleased that the managed to turn those places around and they'll be saying look this is a repudiation of what donald trump has been doing donald trump has already said he would perhaps reach out to democrats and perhaps there's a way they could work together and he me will soften his tour or you remember before the last election he said that he would be more presidential than anyone you've ever seen that didn't quite pan out for him he may need to change is tone certainly could what with one areas like infrastructure and tackling the opioid crisis but after that you're running out of room of the areas that they can walk in and of course the democrats have said if he starts attacking health care in the united states then they would be simply against that and there are other things that they wil

donald trump, get this news, he sent his written answers to mueller today. a lot happening. what will mueller do with them? later, trump defending ivanka's use of personal e-mail for government business. we have the man who started this probe on the show tonight. >>> later, donald trump went ahead and sided with the saudi government despite its torture and murder of a u.s. resident over the opinion of the cia. he says it's all about business. we have a lot more coming up. ♪ ♪ the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ constipation until my doctor direcommended miralax.my stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body, unblocking your system naturally. miralax. now available in single se

winner, he is donald trump loser. he doubles down on destroying a pillars of what makes us a free country and continues to show the abhorrent human behavior. lessons learned from mr. trump coming out of that thumping, zero. >> well, zero so far. again, the question is, we don't expect for donald trump to learn from this because he doesn't apparently politically learn from anything. but you would think republicans in congress, i suspect they will over the next two years learn. they convince themselves for the first three or four days after this election that actually things have gone better than they expected. but i loved your column. >> thank you. >> you said, hey, resist the happy talk, folks. this election is very bad for the job and is bad for 2020. explain that if you will. >> okay. so in the election, what we've seen with this, the snail like wave in which the results coming in after election night, like there is literally not a good result for republicans after tuesday night, wednesday, thursday, friday just each

donald trump gets along with whitaker, the washington post said donald trump refers to him as a backslappingfootball loving kind of guy who likes to see him instead of jeff sessions who donald trump does not get along with very well. >> when it comes to the legal issues, anything congress can do to protect the robert mueller investigation? >> political pressure is one thing, republicans, a few have said it is important to protect the integrity of the investigation. it is worth pointing out that lindsey graham last year, a former colleague of jeff sessions, he said there would be holy hell if donald trump forced jeff sessions to step down and now lindsey graham says he looks forward to looking -- working with the president. on the democratic side, the head of the party in the house, nancy pelosi, and in the senate, chuck schumer, saying that the acting attorney general should recuse himself from the robert mueller probe given his past statements. with the newity investigative powers the democrats have starting in january of next year, with these committees they control in the house. we will s

if donald trump is still convinced somehow that he can run the white house away he ran the 26th floor of trump tower, it just doesn't work that way. know, donald trump is not the first president to come into power full of hubris and toxic -- intoxicated by his political victory, thinking he's the smartest guy in the room. most presidents get over that. they realize at a certain point that there's a difference between campaigning and governing. to me, that's donald trump -- one of his greatest failures. is that he still has not figured out that there's a difference between campaigning, which is dividing and demonizing and governing, which is bringing people together. and i think he had a chance to do that. i think this is almost the last chance for him to try to get to try to god, and in a different direction, and it will be interesting to see the pragmatists in the white house, and there are some -- if there are able to help them change course. host: mark is in seattle, independent. caller: yes, good show. i'm wondering if mr. whipple has been to miami book fair, but the main point is

is the dissolve of any objective reality in our politics central to donald trump is the big. cedar rapids. just two years after trump's election triumph i am back in the u.s. to investigate the apparently unshakeable alliance between trump and his supporters i drive through the midwest flyover country as the americans call it the journey takes us through small towns and agricultural regions with largely white populations. these constituencies once back to rock obama. in two thousand and sixteen donald trump conquered nearly all of them. we're in west virginia. once home to one of the biggest steel mills in the world it used to employ fourteen thousand workers now they barely count seven hundred. the rundown industrial towns of the rust belt are home to the forgotten men and women as donald trump called them. he promised to give them a voice. the former steel worker john both shows us some of the signs of decay. this is all movie theater. building close. ok so you can see downtown see how close starts to get one industry one twenty seven years ago. so but it's really going to b

it is clear the choices will be donald trump, hillary clinton, given that choice i am with trump. >> i'm reminded of the eric erickson comment, put a gun to my head and says i have to vote for donald trump i will take the bullet. >> easy stakes if nobody does. >> i get the hymnal analogy but i feel like i am the parishioner the volunteers, don't care what the hymnal says because i will look at the bible and i feel like yes, trump is in the white house, there's lots of talk about he is the leader of the party but from conservatives we also need to go back to the basics of constitutional conservatism and understand he can be the leader of a party and doing lots of great things but there are checks and balances of the other people and we don't all have to be yes men. >> everybody has to be yes men, the party is -- select the leader. there are people who will disagree on certain things, some people like brett kavanaugh, some people like the tax plan and some people don't. the fact is all different kinds of folks will agree or disagree but there is no question that the parties trump's par

now, i'm not suggesting that we hired jim baker as donald trump's chief of staff, but i do think that trump needs somebody like him with enough gravitas to tell him what he thinks. greta brawner let's go to mike in missouri, independent. yes, mr. whipple. it's amazing, as politically astute as you come up to be, that you have not been snapped up by one of the president's chiefs. what amazes me is that somebody in that position -- pardon me? greta brawner go ahead. chris whipple go ahead. yeah. uh, it's easy to sit on the outside and criticize a criticize and criticize. i talked and he told me this. i configure and tell you i'm a four-star general of the united states marine corps and you don't know that for a fact. again, you have not been in that position of authority, you don't really know what goes on. you are taking your information on what people tell you. i think you do a little digging, i did it, it's hard to prove a lot of things that you say. i don't agree with you, but i appreciate your point of view. show less greta brawner ok, let's get a response. chris whipple it's a fur

donald j. trump on standing with saudi arabia he acknowledges the death of jamal khashoggi was a terrible crime he says the crown prince mohammed bin solomon may or may not have had knowledge of that he is certainly not pinning the blame on him and he is putting the relationship with saudi arabia above that's other issues at the moment or all things which we are looking for at least and that is at the state department we saw we saw the. payor. alongside the turkish foreign minister. they just had a quick photo opportunity here and we are expecting what we were hoping to hear from both of them but they left shortly after this handshake after the photographers got their shot and they will be hopefully will certainly might pompei will be speaking here at the state department we hope in the near future perhaps we won't hear from the turkish foreign minister i say that only because i don't see a ticket flag in that shot and there's some talk that maybe the turkish foreign minister will hold his own separa

all things which are going to irritate donald trump. there is no doubt that up donald trump. that up to this point, he has felt that his way is the right way. if he wa nts to his way is the right way. if he wants to get things done, the suggestion is that he will have to work with democrats. and given those deep divides that exist in american politics right now, i don't think thatis politics right now, i don't think that is going to be easy. it will certainly make for an interesting couple of years ahead up to the next presidential election in 2020. so the democrats made gains, but the republicans also made gains in the senate, doing well particularly in areas where donald trump went and campaigned personally. so do you think he feels he has a good platform to go for the presidency again ina platform to go for the presidency again in a couple of years? he has already tweeted that this is a success. he has already retweeted people who have said he did well in this campaign, and there is no doubt that he has been extremely energetic. he is a man who likes campaigning, but his r

with donald trump. that is going to be a stain for a long time. paul ryan was involved in some very interesting rethinking of conservativism and american politics in the years before donald trump. as recently as 2012, he was talking about the difference between the makers and the takers. afterwards, he said i want to apologize for that. i want to change my perspective. i think that was an unfair way of looking at the american public. he began this interesting project to reach out to central cities, people who worked with poverty and said which programs might actually work? can we rethink the conservative approach to people who are not privileged, people who are struggling in this country. it was a very interesting project on his part that became completely invisible when donald rump came along. the question is, where was paul ryan going? part of his contribution is he was not rigid. he was willing to rethink some things. unfortunately, that got derailed with the rise of trumpism. you can kind of tell if

she didn't mention donald trump's name once. not once did she mention it -- >> that's a strategic choice. >> and if you noticed oprah winfrey didn't go after trump today. i was with cory booker and he mentioned donald trump at the end of an event from menendez where he was basically saying you've got to re-elect bob menendez to stop donald trump. but over the course of those four hours the last three minutes was when he mentioned donald trump. i have found it interesting stop donald trump, hatred of donald trump, feral of donald trump, that in the closing moments the biggest guns of the democratic party are not talking about donald trump, they are talking about the things you mentioned before, the substantive issues. they're basically saying you can't deal with this lunatic. what you can do is he's a liar and the way to deal with that is talk about health care, talk about jobs. >> how's andrew gillum handling what the president does every day? >> well, for the most part, lawrence, he's really trying to make sure he focuses on the

it's only going to get worse for donald trump. with robert mueller closing in, trump has destroyed his own presidency and he is showing us his soul a little more every day. rather some would say his lack of one. in the wake of the midterm super shellacking, the entire republican party is still standing in full support of its dear leader. don't show me your tweets. don't give me your speeches. show me your courage. show me that you want to put your country, your party ahead of donald trump. but time is running out. for the sake of history and for the fake of the conservative moment. and one of the nation's two political party. good men and good women who want a future for the gop need to stand up and speak out today. or therefore their face will be fully intertwined with this man who is crashing and bunning right before their eyes. you think 2018 was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. let's bring in the author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haas. we have contributing editor of the weekly standing and columnist john pedoritz

i knew it would help donald trump. i was happy to do that. culating but sure i was right. >> is it accurate to say you expected roger to tell trump? >> i didn't -- look, logically, should have i expected it? yes, of course. >> of course. so there you have him saying, yeah, all this action was to give donald trump, the candidate, secret early intel on what assange was doing. how bad would that be for trump? >> it could be very bad, if at the same time this dirt and getting it out into the public was taking place, trump was also making promises to the russians that the he would reduce or eliminate sanctions against russian oligarchs then you have the classic quid pro quo. again, that corsi and stone being arms of that illegal transaction. >> right, that could be a thing of value that trump actually gets. >> correct. >> third and finally -- >> yes. >> -- he brought up pardons. take a look. >> i'm not counting on donald trump for anything. including a pardon. i -- that's not the basis on which i made my decision. >> i didn't ask you about the pard

he was the only republican member of the senate to support donald trump he went down to alabama there was a big rally that was a big moment for donald trump as well and with jeff sessions getting behind him there were others who felt that they could support donald trump that he would push forward their agenda but really since the the whole thing about the russian inquiry and jeff sessions recusing himself blew up donald trump has vilified jeff sessions he's called them names he's called them beleaguered has given him a hard time on twitter and the story around washington was that jeff sessions gave donald trump a letter that was undated which was all about his all about his giving his rest resignation and there's no date on this letter no of course the other story over he's talking about whether they should or lot is about the media and we are part of the media and yet in the firing line again there's nothing new about what and how donald trump is treating the media but he seemed very on edge about the way the media were asking him questions that press conference. exactly and th

bob mueller would know that but donald trump wasn't know what else mcgahn has dished on. e white house he did clash with trump and trump blamed him for mueller's entire appointment. he doesn't know what elbob mcga has said. he was part of firing of mike flynn, the firing of james comey. jeff sessions decision not to recuse, these other attempts to fire bob mueller and the new report that trump wanted to prosecute clinton and comey. mcgahn is reportedly cooperating exten extensively. over 30 hours of interview. every one agrees mcgahn was in the center of everything. >> the counsel to the president is a appointed position directly answerable to the president. it's the primary legal adviser to the president. >> that vovrs yinvolves you in about everything. >> unfortunately, yes. >> hard for you to say i didn't do it. >> i'm joined my michael conway who wrote part of the report recommending richard nixon's imp peachment. is the attempted investigation of political enemies, clinton and comey, worse than the original comey firing from a legal perspective and do you think don mc

donald trump compared to those two. ose two. i think i might have to get you back on that one. thank you very much for coming 0k, lets get the view from the democrats we can speak to emily cain, executive director emily's list, its a progressive organization dedicated to getting women elected to office. and this is definitely the year of the woman. i was just looking at the figures today, we have got, if you include all the candidates for the house, senate and governor positions, 276 women all told. when i look bad list, two thirds of them are on the democrat side. why do democrats have a more diverse list than the republicans? it's nothing new. emily ‘s list has been around more than 30 years looking to elect pro—choice democratic women. we don't have a counterpart on the republican side. the truth is, when we look at what's at stake in this direction, particularly for women and families, it's no surprise that so many women have stepped up to run. we are also working with more than 550 women running for state and local

i was in weirton at the beginning of last year shortly after donald trump's presidential inauguration there was hope that things would start looking up under the new president. the mayor of the town predicted that trump could restore the u.s. to its rightful place as number one in the world we ask how he feels about it twenty months later. i did support trump and i continue to support him he calls a spade a spade and you know and he says that he says what he thinks and it and that's what it is most people in this area are totally supportive of trump even the union guys in the mill still call still they are you know why because he calls it what it is you know it's no. excuse my language i hear all that bad stuff i said. but. and you really know where he's coming from. he doesn't have a political agenda i don't believe he really wants to make the governor of this country great again. there are some signs of progress a company has bought a large part of the old steel mill complex and is demolishing it with a view to setting up a modern industrial park. more than one hundred workers were

during the presidential transition after donald trump was elected, donald trump thanked david peckeressing the mcdougal story. the journal reports, mr. pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. trump's involvement in the mcdougal deal. joining us now barbara mcquade, a former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor. and david corn is back with us. barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this wall street journal reporting. >> well, it's a very painstaking walk through the very same criminal information that michael cohen pleaded guilty to. they filled in a lot of the gaps here and filled in a lot of the blanks. it is protocol at the just department when you're not going to charge someone to refer to them by a pseudonm. candidate one, executive one, et cetera. and based on the reporting we now know that president trump himself, if this report was true was intimately involved every step of the way which essentially makes him an unindicted coconspirator. they would certainly have all the pieces of the evidence to charge the president with b

donald trump will head to argentina today for the annual g 20 summit.to meet with several world leaders including russian president vladimir putin. according to the kremlin they will discuss antiterrorism efforts, syria and north korea denuclearization, donald trump will hold talks with chinese president xi jinping about rising trade tensions. a key witness in the russia probe intending to file criminal complaint against robert mueller as a top democrat demand donald trump sitdown with the special counsel. todd pyro joins us live with the latest development as we look at the president's written answers to mueller. >> the latest twist in the russia probe conservative author jerome corsi with a bombshell that he plans to go after robert mueller and his team in the courts. >> special prosecutor is asking me to accept a fraudulent plea which i'm going to have my attorneys file criminal charges on with the department of justice. in my experience made it clear to me the political criminals are running the department of justice and mueller's prosecution, misbe

exactly right the talk was there going to be a meeting between him and donald trump donald trump being one of the crown prince's biggest international supporters we were told that that was off the table that don't trump certainly didn't have time when they said joe let's be honest don't trump wants to meet the saudi crown prince donald trump will meet the saudi crown prince there will be a gap in the shadow created tello that to happen so the fact that donald trump isn't meeting him here is significant there were those who said that they were going to meet him and then canceled those plans among them but president did go ahead with the diplomatic niceties of greeting mohammed bin salman is the arrived at the g twenty as you would expect him to do we know that prime minister modi of india met the saudi crown prince of these residents here in argentina on thursday but then it was all about who is going to shake his hand who is going to talk to him when the g. twenty actually gets under way we'll present my craw certainly had a quick brief meeting with them according to sources from the p

donald trump has leased the queue. donald trump has leased theissue the queue.he forefront of his campaigning. the president calls this migrant caravan and innovation and has deployed extra troops to the mexican border ina bid extra troops to the mexican border in a bid to stop them entering the us. our correspondence has been following the group. as voters are killing in their droves in the to cast their outlets, here in the migrants caravan, one of the key issues during this election, most people barely know there is an election taking place at all. rather, the queues here for things like food, drink, medicalsupport, legal advice. many of the migrants have complicated legal issues and they will want to clarify their status before they get to the us border and apply for asylum. there isa number of border and apply for asylum. there is a number of bilingual lawyers on hand to help with that. in the stadium, jesus martinez stadium, the local authorities have set up a number of rather large marquees and 10th where migrants are sleeping, resting, they are washing a

american voters did not want donald trump to be president but the electoral college gave it to him. for two years americans have disapproved of the trump presidency every day of that presidency, every single day for two years. and yesterday american voters rose up in resistance to the trump presidency and handcuffed donald trump. the day after donald trump was inaugurated the resistance to donald trump took to the streets not just in washington but around this country and around the world in the biggest worldwide organized protest in history, and last night that resistance took over the house of representatives. and today trump is clinging to the wreckage of the trump government and panicking. the trump government has included the white house and both houses of congress and now the trump government is broken, very broken because the democrats have the house of representatives. and if donald trump's newly installed political hack of an acting attorney general takes action against special prosecutor robert mueller, the democratic house of representatives will bring robert mueller to te

donald trump spent his at m mar-a-lago. he may or may not have spent it wondering who might be the next friend or associate to flip on him in the russiagate probe. that clip that you just saw was roger stone associate, corsi. there's still no indictment, but a plea deal could be in the works. the "washington post" first reported and corsi later confirmed he was in plea negotiations with the special counsel. if the two sides do reach a deal, it could be key in determining whether trump or his advisers knew in advance whether wikileaks planned to release stolen democratic e-mails during the presidential campaign or if trump was merely a wikileaks super fan. >> this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> i love wikileaks. >> they have to start talking about wikileaks. >> the wonder of wikileaks. wikileaks. they have revealed a lot. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> that came out on wikileaks. this wikileak stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you have to read it. >> let's bring in mya wiley and paul butler

they are all -- they are letting donald trump have the mega phone. erstand that the anti-trump sentiment is out there and that at this point the best anti-trump spokesman is donald trump. elizabeth warren did not mention donald trump's name once in two events and that is an incredible change because democrats are most unified against donald trump. now they are like let the president make the case against the president and we're just going talk about health care and other policy issues where democrats have an advantage. >> elise, you've done so many focus groups over the past year or two. and it is fascinating that donald trump and donald trump's campaign, he hasn't been talking about the economy, he hasn't been talking about taxes, he hasn't been talking about tissues you expect him to talk about the most. he's making up stories about caravans, throwing pebbles, he's saying he's going to rewrite the constitution with presidential signature. why is he doing that and based on all your focus groups, how is that going to play in middle america? >> joe, we

it's not just donald trump.ives that carry the president's message -- not this guy -- >> not me? >> not you guys. >> and charlie retired. >> don't push your luck. >> the congressman is like, not i. but that's real. so when the president is stoking the fears of folks that have this -- i think we've called it racial anxiety, that's fear of black and brown people. but when the president is stoking those fears and you have members of congress that run ads on that, that traffic in this bigotry and these lies and this racism across the country, they are to blame and they are also complicit. unless we call out white supremacy which is ideology that believes whiteness is above all, that believes in the idea of white culture, when the president is talking about immigrants destroying our culture, he's talking about white supremacist ideology. we're not on a dangerous slippery slope we've fallen and we have to address it and combat and i'm waiting on folks to step up. >> well, there's don jr. tweeting about angus king. ang

it would be kind of ironic to see donald trump jr. arguing that his dad appointed an unconstitutional guy to prosecute him, and therefore the indictment against him should be dismissed. i don't think that was exactly what trump had in mind, but he might have. could i adjust one thing? i think representative cohen made a very important point when he talked about the warfare that's being declared on the house. but it's not just bizarre. for the president of the united states to say to one branch of the u.s. government, if you perform your function and get too close to bothering me, i'm going to go to war against you, that is not only an out of the box statement, it's part of an obstruction of justice. it's an impeachable move to say that, i'm going to retaliate in various ways to make your life difficult if you perform your constitutional functions is essentially obstruction of justice on stilts, on steroids. and i think that the house judiciary committee is going to have to look closely at that in january. >> professor laurence tribe, t

republican party is off taking a nap somewhere and it's become donald trump's party. this could be a very long siesta they're taking. i think a lot of it will depend on the circumstances, how discredit is trump, how is it a close defeat, a big defeat, are a lot of his acolytes and cronies defeats as snell a lot of republicans have really remade themselves in donald trump's image but if there is a saving grace nor future of the republican party, it is how principled and insincere the leaders are that most of them don't believe in the trump rot gut. the think that's where the votes are. so the fact they're hypocrites and are putting their own political futures above the future of the party -- the future of the party her to country in some ways that should be a accuse temperature dismay and could be or al vacation because in the future -- salvation, they thermses to their current liter donald trump but in the fewer itself there's a deposit, modern centrist person, and wins they willed to use for him because they are lack in prim and that could be the salvation of the repu

and what is donald trump doing? the difference of course is donald trump is doing it in public, in front of us. we're seeing it before our very eyes. and they seem nonchalant, almost proud of the fact they are obstructing justice. that's what they're doing. it is clearly obstruction of justice. and the only question is whether, you know, it's legally provable. i'm not a lawyer, but that's what it is. >> harry litman, your reaction to this collection of developments that include the president saying outright to paul manafort directly today i'm thinking about pardoning you while paul manafort's plea agreement and cooperation deal collapses. >> yeah, so i think there's actually an interesting connection between those two events, lawrence, because manafort's treachery and all the time being a kind of double agent for trump is so improper and so funky that it actually makes the offer of a pardon seem more directly tied to trying to scuttle the investigation of trump himself. in other words, it suggests that manafort was

. >> reporter: jerome corsi is not directly tied to donald trump but is an associate of roger stone who was a trump advisor in 2016. what we do know is as he continues to create a situation which could lead to a plea deal with the mueller team that is newsworthy and everyone can agree it may not be very good news for the president. >> the written answers to the witchhunt that has been going on forever, no collusion, no nothing. >> reporter: the president remained steadfast in denial of any russian collusion connected to his campaign the special counsel's office continues to tighten the net on a number of individuals close to the trump orbit. the latest, jerome corsi who like roger stone has been linked to the controversial website info wars and is in talks with the mueller team about a possible plea deal stemming from the ongoing russia probe. the mueller team questioned him as part of an investigation into stone's connections with the website wikileaks and its founder, julian assigns. mueller is trying to determine whether stone and other trump associates had advanced knowledge of plan

you can expect donald trump to be fighting for that one. ns tomorrow, the 2020 race will begin. so can we take any clues from what we have seen in the rustbelt and the midwest tonight? it is interesting what we have seen in pennsylvania. a lot of the democratic seats in the suburbs that they needed to flip they did flip, allentown for instance, the democrats have flipped that, the old steel belt town that donald trump did well in two years ago which has gone to the democrats. these results are so uneven, which makes extrapolation quite difficult. for instance, the republicans gained in pittsburgh's, —— pittsburgh and bucs county, so people have projected a lot of different meaning. what is significant is how many moderate democrats have done well, people like mikey cheryl, a democrat in newjersey, former navy helicopter pilot, the lesson might be the democrats have to field moderate candidates in the presidential election, there are a lot of millennial is in this part tonight who were cheering those on the left of the party so it is difficul

donald trump lost half of that and they gained in the senate.icant. 1980 years sitting presidents of in eight senate seats combined over 80 years in one midterm election, donald trump gained 3 to four. that is historic and democrats might try to paint this in a rosy light but there is no way to do it, this is a shellacking for the democratic party. >> interesting to see how this came down and i wonder will democrats move a little more centrist and try to work with the president? he hijacked this campaign and did pretty well last night. >> i think katie is trying to put lipstick on a pig, still smells like a pig. we won a lot of elections last night. democrats won 333 legislative seats last night. no matter how you spin this it was big. you talk about declaring victory because you won a couple red states we knew we would lose. >> you were going to lose, do you know what the reelection rate is? >> democratic performance in those seats -- doesn't make you write. >> get to won, donald trump, you pulled out all the stops the hollywood -- >> the presi

a new schedule for donald trump. heather: donald trump could strike a trade deal with china and our president has the upper hand. >> trump has the leverage going to this meeting. the us economy is booming where china is stagnating, the worst economic growth since 2009 and the chinese took their shot at donald trump this year. after he put his first sanctions on china they retaliated smartly going after trump voters targeting soybeans, targeting north dakota and indiana and missouri hoping to tell trump's opponent, have them lose the senate over these tariffs. what happened was the opposite so the chinese took their kill shot to go after him and it failed. trump doesn't mind the sanctions, trump voters in those rural states that were dependent on china trade back to the last election gave him a mandate to get tough with beijing. >> donald trump planning to raise tariffs to 25% on chinese goods that could go higher if talks do not go well, more on this coming up. donald trump demanding the mueller probe to come to a en

how can you lay that on donald trump? the rhetoric on the left is just as bad, the opposition party media will not report it. [applause] >> please, spare me. spare me. spare me. i just made a film called trump at war. the first five minutes is a prologue. what i took is don lemon, don lemon. i respect don lemon. i took don lemon's greatest hits when he looks into the camera it's not donald trump's a racist, you're a zen phone, you're a racist, the backers of donald trump. and i cut it with the footage of antifa beating these people up. somebody said where'd you get this footage? it's almost x-rated. it's shot by the cable networks, it's just never played. it's always trump's supporters that are the race racists. it's always trump supporters that are the cause of all this. they never talk about antifa or the intimidation. look what happened to ted cruz, mitch mcconnell. do not sit here and tell me that the left and the democratic party or and the instigators like hillary clinton and holder, holder said when they go low, kic